Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality . |
| 2 | When Mrs Gray had produced two very passable cups of coffee , they seated themselves at the long deal kitchen table . |
| 3 | Ronni cast him a glance , as they seated themselves at opposite sides of the table . |
| 4 | Cos they sell it at Cleethorpes market with little pot pou pure , yeah them . |
| 5 | The important thing is , did they hurt you at all ? ’ |
| 6 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 7 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 8 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 9 | It was a wonderful experience , they entertained us at their home and took us to see some of Auckland 's wonderful sights . |
| 10 | Is that how they make them at school darling ? |
| 11 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 12 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 13 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 14 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 15 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 16 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
| 17 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 18 | They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge . |
| 19 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 20 | ‘ Leeds were on top of their game when they thrashed us at Hillsborough in January , ’ said defender Nigel Worthington . |
| 21 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 22 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 23 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 24 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 25 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |
| 26 | Yes , indeed , they told me at the tabac , the old building had stood until a year or so ago . |
| 27 | ‘ They told me at the desk downstairs that you were here . ’ |
| 28 | When they told me at work she 'd bought that , I was , cos they lived up at Green Lane I thought my God he 'd have they 've picked a a bad spot there cos there 's no flood protection at all there . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're looking a bit peaky , ’ they told her at work , and she tried desperately to conceal her fatigue . |
| 30 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |